![]() I am fairly certain he also takes lyrics from Tom Petty and Dire Straits, but I can't recall what they are at the moment. Here's Lookin At You, Kid is the last line of the famous speech from Casablanca. ![]() Rollin' and Tumblin' is the name of an old blues standard most famously done by Muddy Waters. She Loves You is the name of a Beatles song, of course. Great Expectations is a Charles Dickens novel. "High Lonesome" is the name of an old western.Įven Cowgirls Get the Blues is the name of a book by Tom Robbins. "Shaking like a leaf" in Old White Lincoln is close to a lyric in All Shook Up by Elvis ("My insides shake like a leaf on a tree".) That one could be coincidence.Īs someone already mentioned, the Maria and Elvis lines from High Lonesome are taken from the Counting Crows. Verse 1 I was born in a town where the rivers flow free On a January night when the cold winds freeze I got an Irish name and an injury A blessing and a curse cast down on me Ain't nobody got. "Your Bette Davis eyes" in Mae is a reference to.Better Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. "In the cold, cold ground" in Old White Lincoln names a Tom Waits song. Like every tenth Gaslight lyric is a Springsteen reference. "No surrender, my Bobby Jean" names two Springsteen songs. His "ramshackle voice" references Ramshackle Day Parade. ![]() "The very last gang in town" is referencing, well, Last Gang in Town. "The soul is hard to find" is from Johnny Appleseed. Sink or Swim is the debut studio album by the Gaslight Anthem, released May 29, 2007, through XOXO Records. "Tells me he's only looking for fun" is referencing White Man in Hammersmith Palais. Like 2/3 of the lyrics from I'da Called You Woody, Joe are taken from the Clash or Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros songs. All 71 of The Gaslight Anthem The Gaslight Anthem - We Came To Dance Lyrics VeebGet The Gaslight Anthem setlists - view them, share them. "Every streetlight a reminder" in Blue Dahlia is taken from Nightswimming by REM. I'd love to hear what y'all know so that I can learn too :) Is the line "Where we can take a seat at the bar with the other broken heroes" a reference to the "broken heroes on a last chance power drive" from Springsteen's Born to Run? Is "Howl" really just a retelling of "Thunder Road?" From watching videos of live shows, I know that Fallon's Painkillers album was influenced by Tom Petty musically, but are there references in any other songs? I guess I'm wondering what other ones are out there. I know that there's several references to other songs in his work things like "glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" in Senor and the Queen coming from Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light and "At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet, it's a pretty good song, baby, you know the rest" being a nod to Springsteen's I'm on Fire. THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM LYRICS - We Came To Dance Lyrics to We Came To Dance song by THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM: We. So, I've been on a Brian Fallon kick for the last few months (listening to either his solo stuff or Gaslight Anthem pretty much exclusively). I wanna be great, Ive gotta wise up, And sing my.
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